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The Three Greatest Areas of Impact for AI in Automation

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In this contributed article, Jakob Freund, Co-Founder and CEO at Camunda, explores three different types of AI that he predicts will dominate industries as organizations work to ensure business processes are streamlined and working as intended. These three AI buckets include predictive decision-making, generative processes, and assistive tools.

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Effective Small Language Models: Microsoft’s 1.3 Billion Parameter phi-1.5

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Learn about Microsoft’s 1.3 billion parameter model that has outperformed Llama 2’s 7-billion parameters model on several benchmarks.

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insideBIGDATA AI News Briefs – 9/22/2023

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Welcome insideBIGDATA AI News Briefs, our timely new feature bringing you the latest industry insights and perspectives surrounding the field of AI including deep learning, large language models, generative AI, and transformers. We’re working tirelessly to dig up the most timely and curious tidbits underlying the day’s most popular technologies. We know this field is advancing rapidly and we want to bring you a regular resource to keep you informed and state-of-the-art.

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Optimizing Data Storage: Exploring Data Types and Normalization in SQL

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Learn about the data types and normalization techniques in SQL, which will be very helpful for optimizing your data storage.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, 2023

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FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) this fall.

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0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt

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Last week Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), in partnership with The Citizen Lab, discovered an in-the-wild 0-day exploit chain for iPhones. Developed by the commercial surveillance vendor, Intellexa, this exploit chain is used to install its Predator spyware surreptitiously onto a device.In response, yesterday, Apple patched the bugs in iOS 16.7 and iOS 17.0.1 as CVE-2023-41991, CVE-2023-41992, CVE-2023-41993.

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Exploring Neural Networks

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Unlocking the power of AI: a suide to neural networks and their applications.

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The Equinox Is Not What You Think It Is

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Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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How much energy does AI use compared to humans? Surprising study ignites controversy

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AI’s carbon footprint is no open-and-shut case, according to scientists from the University of California-Irvine and MIT, who published a paper earlier this year on the open access site arXiv.

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The Definitive Entity Resolution Buyer’s Guide

Are you thinking of adding enhanced data matching and relationship detection to your product or service? Do you need to know more about what to look for when assessing your options? The Senzing Entity Resolution Buyer’s Guide gives you step-by-step details about everything you should consider when evaluating entity resolution technologies. You’ll learn about use cases, technology and deployment options, top ten evaluation criteria and more.

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Auto-Regressive Next-Token Predictors Are Universal Learners

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Large language models display remarkable capabilities in logical and mathematical reasoning, allowing them to solve complex tasks. Interestingly, these abilities emerge in networks trained on the simple task of next-token prediction. In this work, we present a theoretical framework for studying auto-regressive next-token predictors. We demonstrate that even simple models such as linear next-token predictors, trained on Chain-of-Thought (CoT) data, can approximate any function efficiently compute

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Will AI end education as we know it? Economist predicts schools, teachers could become 'obsolete'

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With the surge in growth of artificial intelligence, fears over the new technology have experts weighing in on what impact it will have on U.S. education. One economist warned that the technology will eventually lead to the elimination of teaching.

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The Design System Ecosystem

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What does a mature, end-to-end design system look like in a big, complex organization? What are all the moving pieces, and how do they hang together as a well-considered architecture? What's required and what's optional? Hold onto your butts, because we're going to go deep on this one.

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AI Should Be Decentralized, But How?

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The case for greater transparency and verifiability in AI. But is decentralization the best way to achieve that and is feasible in practice? Jesus Rodriguez, of IntoTheBlock, says the technical challenges are tremendous.

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Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models

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Wowed by a new paper I just read and wish I had thought to write myself. Lukas Berglund and others, led by Owain Evans, asked a simple, powerful, elegant question: can LLMs trained on A is B infer automatically that B is A?

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SEO Is Dead. Long Live AO

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If you're not optimizing for artificial intelligence algorithyms, you're already behind. I've been spending a lot of time with clients lately, discussing with them the mammoth changes coming to their businesses in the coming years.

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Hominins built with wood 476,000 years ago

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Understanding the timeline of technological developments sheds light on early societies. A remarkable finding in Africa of a structure made from shaped wood provides clues about our hominin relatives. Ancient hand-crafted wooden structures excavated in Zambia.

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A flood of new AI products just arrived — whether we’re ready or not

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SAN FRANCISCO — Big Tech launched multiple new artificial intelligence products this week, capable of reading emails and documents or conversing in a personal way.

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Shades of Go: Traps, Gotchas, and Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs

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Go is a simple and fun language, but, like any other language, it has a few gotchas. Many of those gotchas are not entirely Go's fault. Some of these mistakes are natural traps if you are coming from another language.

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This is the No. 1 'most important' AI skill you need to know, says MIT expert: 'You can learn the basics in 2 hours'

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Employers want AI-savvy workers right now, says Anant Agarwal, chief platform officer of education tech company 2U — especially ones with a particular skill.

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All the ways to capture changes in Postgres

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Working with data at rest is where Postgres shines. But what about when you need data in motion? What about when you need to trigger a workflow based on changes to a table? Fortunately, Postgres comes with a lot of options to make this happen.

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Inventor ponders ethics of wiring human brain tissue into computers

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When you take 800,000 human brain cells, wire them into a biological hybrid computer chip, and demonstrate that it can learn faster than neural networks, people have questions. We speak to Dr. Brett Kagan, Chief Scientific Officer at Cortical Labs.

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How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate

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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.

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How companies are embracing generative AI for employees…or not

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New York CNN — Companies are struggling to deal with the rapid rise of generative AI, with some rushing to embrace the technology as workflow tools for employees while others shun it – at least for now.

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Parsing integers quickly with AVX-512

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If I give a programmer a string such as 9223372036854775808 and I ask them to convert it to an integer, they might do the following in C++: std::string s =. uint64_t val; auto [ptr, ec] = std::from_chars(s.data(), s.data() + s.size(), val); if (ec != std::errc()) {} // I have an error !

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Machine Learning Experiment Tracking Using MLflow

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Introduction The area of machine learning (ML) is rapidly expanding and has applications across many different sectors. Keeping track of machine learning experiments using MLflow and managing the trials required to construct them gets harder as they get more complicated. This can result in many problems for data scientists, such as: Given the above challenges, […] The post Machine Learning Experiment Tracking Using MLflow appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Authors sue OpenAI for using their works without proper licensing

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The suit, filed with the Authors Guild, accuses the A.I. company of infringing on authors’ copyrights, claiming it used their books to train its ChatGPT chatbot.

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Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking

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Algorithms have become ubiquitous. They optimize our commutes, process payments, and coordinate the flow of internet traffic.

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Turning an old car into a powerful generator

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Generators are expensive pieces of equipment. You can get a small low-quality model for a few hundred dollars, but powerful high-quality generators cost thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. Old cars, on the other hand, can be very cheap — especially if they aren’t roadworthy anymore.

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Amazon puts a cap on self-publishing to combat flood of AI-generated novels

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Amazon revealed the publication limitation in a post on the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) forum. KDP allows authors to self-publish their books and sell them in e-book, paperback, and hardback versions on the retail site.

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